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NINA MORENO
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Coming 5.17.2022
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Available Now
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Available Now
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JOIN THE CLUB MAGGIE DIAZ...
This humorous and heartfelt middle-grade debut by Nina Moreno with illustrations by Courtney Lovett is perfect for fans of Celia C. Pérez and Terri Libenson, and any reader still deciding what their passion in life is.
MAYBE I'M GOOD AT SOMETHING I DON'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT YET.
Everyone in Maggie Diaz's life seems to be finding their true passion. The one thing that defines them as a person. Her best friends Zoey and Julian are too busy to hang out after school thanks to band and comics club. Mom is finishing her last semester in college. And Maggie's perfect older sister Caro is perfectly-perfect at sports and tutoring.
So Maggie cooks up a plan to join every club she can! But trying to fit in with type-A future leaders, gardening whizzes, and the fearless kids in woodshop is intimidating, exhausting, and seriously confusing. And juggling homework, friends, and all of her after-school activities is way harder than it looks.
Seventh grade is all about figuring out who you are -- good thing Maggie Diaz has the perfect plan!
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This humorous and heartfelt middle-grade debut by Nina Moreno with illustrations by Courtney Lovett is perfect for fans of Celia C. Pérez and Terri Libenson, and any reader still deciding what their passion in life is.
MAYBE I'M GOOD AT SOMETHING I DON'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT YET.
Everyone in Maggie Diaz's life seems to be finding their true passion. The one thing that defines them as a person. Her best friends Zoey and Julian are too busy to hang out after school thanks to band and comics club. Mom is finishing her last semester in college. And Maggie's perfect older sister Caro is perfectly-perfect at sports and tutoring.
So Maggie cooks up a plan to join every club she can! But trying to fit in with type-A future leaders, gardening whizzes, and the fearless kids in woodshop is intimidating, exhausting, and seriously confusing. And juggling homework, friends, and all of her after-school activities is way harder than it looks.
Seventh grade is all about figuring out who you are -- good thing Maggie Diaz has the perfect plan!
PRE-ORDER
OUR WAY BACK TO ALWAYS...
Luisa (Lou) Patterson grew up across the street from Sam Alvarez in the small, quirky town of Port Coral. They used to be inseparable--until the most disastrous (and embarrassing) middle school serenade ever, and Lou and Sam haven't talked since. Sam is now the golden boy with plenty of friends, while Lou is an anxious gamer and secret romantic who's happiest on her own. But when her older sister gives up a scholarship to Princeton to have a baby and work at the local botanica, all of their mother's expectations are now riding on Lou's shoulders. She's retaking her SAT's, signed up for way too many AP classes, and her sights set on colleges with fancy names like Duke and Vanderbilt. But when she finds the bucket list she and Sam wrote together as kids, before Sam's father was diagnosed with cancer, she's shocked to see that she hasn't accomplished any of the goals she'd set for herself. Go to a party? Nope. Pull the greatest prank of all time? Still no. Learn how to be a really good kisser? Definitely not.
Torn between the future that her mother, sister, and younger self planned for her, Lou sets out to finish the list, and in a stroke of destiny or fate, Sam decides to tag along. Still trying to stay afloat amid the grief of losing his father, Sam himself is staring down a future that feels all too close, and is coming far too fast. But with the bucket list to guide them, Sam and Lou might just be able to find a way through the future, and also a way back to each other.
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Luisa (Lou) Patterson grew up across the street from Sam Alvarez in the small, quirky town of Port Coral. They used to be inseparable--until the most disastrous (and embarrassing) middle school serenade ever, and Lou and Sam haven't talked since. Sam is now the golden boy with plenty of friends, while Lou is an anxious gamer and secret romantic who's happiest on her own. But when her older sister gives up a scholarship to Princeton to have a baby and work at the local botanica, all of their mother's expectations are now riding on Lou's shoulders. She's retaking her SAT's, signed up for way too many AP classes, and her sights set on colleges with fancy names like Duke and Vanderbilt. But when she finds the bucket list she and Sam wrote together as kids, before Sam's father was diagnosed with cancer, she's shocked to see that she hasn't accomplished any of the goals she'd set for herself. Go to a party? Nope. Pull the greatest prank of all time? Still no. Learn how to be a really good kisser? Definitely not.
Torn between the future that her mother, sister, and younger self planned for her, Lou sets out to finish the list, and in a stroke of destiny or fate, Sam decides to tag along. Still trying to stay afloat amid the grief of losing his father, Sam himself is staring down a future that feels all too close, and is coming far too fast. But with the bucket list to guide them, Sam and Lou might just be able to find a way through the future, and also a way back to each other.
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MORE ABOUT NINA...
Nina Moreno is a proud University of Florida Gator who once had her dream job of shelving books at the library and now writes about disaster Latinx teens & tweens chasing their dreams, falling in love, and navigating life in the hyphen.
Her YA novels Don’t Date Rosa Santos and Our Way Back to Always are available now from LBYR and her MG debut, Join the Club, Maggie Diaz, will be available from Scholastic May 17, 2022.
https://ninamoreno.com
Nina Moreno is a proud University of Florida Gator who once had her dream job of shelving books at the library and now writes about disaster Latinx teens & tweens chasing their dreams, falling in love, and navigating life in the hyphen.
Her YA novels Don’t Date Rosa Santos and Our Way Back to Always are available now from LBYR and her MG debut, Join the Club, Maggie Diaz, will be available from Scholastic May 17, 2022.
https://ninamoreno.com